http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2013/01/25/komi-no-longer-washingtonians-top-restaurant-in-d-c/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/01/25/tonight-sean-hannity-exposes-boomtown-d-c/
Missed this Fox News expose on DC and politics and money. I'm sure it was insightful
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
huh. this exact subject was already exposéed a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/washingtons-economic-boom-financed-by-you.html
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Saturday, 26 January 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, mentioned upthread (I always forget to read far enough upthread too)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
You guys are about to get 69F??!
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
and it's snowing/ice raining right now. then wednesday, supposedly high of 61F (last night it was saying 70F!), then friday, snow again.?!?!
― Z S, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
But she doesn't think so:
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/nation_crap_ital_HhE3movzcOu5eJzrxfwuwO
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Help us. Help your country. Help your capital. Help Washington, DC. Clean it up. Drive into it, drive by the approach, see how rank it is. How murky. How smelly. How putrid. How vile. The area’s a sewer. It lacks only a dead body decaying there.
tbf there probably is a dead body decaying there
― Z S, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
more like the STINKIN monument amirite
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
It absolutely horrifies me that people write things like that.
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
"In open areas around gutters, roadways, open deserted lots, it’s discarded soda cans, graffiti, syringes, rotted junk, rubber tires, strewn paper, chalk marks, cigarette butts, dog poop, empty bottles, thrown out plastic bags, open garbage, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needles, filthy rags, needles, junky clothes, broken plumbing facilities, backyards and front yards filled with detritus. Elvis alive is probably in there."
syringes, drug paraphernalia, abandoned needes, and needles all at the same time!
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
It's like fifteen paragraphs consisting of lists of things and ending with a ridiculous sentence fragment like "And it's shameful." What is she even saying? I'm tempted to fault her for identifying a problem w/o suggesting any solutions but she's not even identifying a problem; basically it's "I saw some urban decay in a major metropolitan area; here's some hyperbole and a lot of misconceptions I have about stuff."
― whoop i. goldberg (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
"i drove to washington once"
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
also lmao @ "geezers"
christ on a cracker has this person ever traveled to a city in a developing/third-world country? After three weeks in Sri Lanka, it took me a while to get over how relatively spic-and-span our city is!
― quincie, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh god why did I read that. Is that how she always writes? It hardly qualifies as "writing" in the formal sense. Ugh wanna punch her. Hack is too kind a word.
― quincie, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
"The Big Crapple"
About 103,000 results (0.28 seconds)
― dope ass mug (los blue jeans), Friday, 1 February 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Missed the Forward on Climate rally today. I wonder how big the turnout was? Alas, Obama was in Florida having a golf weekend
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 February 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
in florida having a golf weekend with oil folks, as it happened.
count varies from 35k to 50k depending on who you ask--looked to me like 40.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 22 February 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
fan reaction to the dcu carlos ruiz pickup is, uh, muted
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
whoops wrong thread
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 22 February 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
fan reaction to Wizards crawford trade to Celtics for injured guy and benchwarmer is whatever
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
The capital city's DMV has a 53-page list of 26,993 license plate no-no's that prohibit everything from praising the local baseball team to expressing disgust with the Internal Revenue Service.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/vanity-license-plate-banned-washington-d-c-201629267--politics.html
BSTMEUP is permitted
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
TAINT is banned
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
TTAINTT is ok
brb, going to the DMV
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
TTAINTT is my new chillwave band
13 shot the other night.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/up-to-11-people-shot-on-dc-street-corner-overnight/2013/03/11/d7c5197e-8a39-11e2-a051-6810d606108d_story.html
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
So why doesn't Lanier have cops sitting between Tyler House and the nightclub at 2 am closing time instead of just doing her standard lets just shut down the club routine (especially where as here there were allegations that troublemakers were hassling folks leaving the club)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 March 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/03/08/youve-seen-our-list-now-show-us-your-40-eats/?hpid=z9
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
What's new?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/bestofdc/foodanddrink/2013/best-restaurant
Sushi Taro
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Hi DC. Miss you boo.
― quincie, Friday, 12 April 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
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― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
rainy and horrible today. meant to be lovely this weekend though. miss DC then!
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/04/26/come-get-some-a-lit-party-without-stale-crackers/
I don't know the work of any of these DC writers. But I still need to read Edward P. Jones first I think.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2013/v10i2/olivierassayas.aspx
So which one(s) should I see?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
the only advice I have is: not Demonlover
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
isnt that shit called AUDIDOCS now?
― 69, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Yep the AFI Silver Docs fest is now sadly called that in honor of Audi of course; I was just asking about the AFI's separate fest:
May 2–July 1 Hailed by many as the most important of contemporary French filmmakers, Olivier Assayas has made more than 20 films across a diversity of genres, including features, documentaries and shorts.
He directed Irma Vep and Carlos and others (and includes Sonic Youth, John Cale & Pixies music on the soundtrack in some--says the blurb), and that controversial one Stevie says to skip (soulds like good advice).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
sounds
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's not even controversial it's just boring and poorly made.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
you can skip Boarding Gate too. Summer Hours/Irma Vep/Carlos essential.
― Gukbe, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
I missed the mini-golf at the National Building Museum last summer, but I see now I have a 2nd chance. It's coming back. Yay!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/04/30/mini-golf-returns-to-the-national-building-museum-on-may-27/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta do it this summer. In other deadline-related stuff, I wanna see that Gordon Parks photo exhibit at the Adamson before it closes May 31
http://adamsongallery.com/exhibitions/2013-03-23_gordon-parks-an-american-lens/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
mini-golf opens near the end of May
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
oops, duh, says it right there in the link above.
Hoping sequester doesn't end concerts at Carter Barron and Fort Dupont this summer. National Park Service is keeping quiet about the full schedule till the end of the month, although the Washington Post shows at Carter Barron are cancelled, and the 4th of July concert at the Washington Monument is cancelled (but not the fireworks)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
last year's NBM minigolf course sucked, it reaffirmed every negative stereotype about architects caring more for aesthetics than function.
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
But I'm gonna keep up my hopes for this year, since I never made it to last year's...Maybe they'll choose different folks to design them
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link